Are Auburn Fans Intentionally Running Into Alabama Players’ Cars?

Alabama and Auburn hate each other. Their hate festers, congeals into unexpected forms of hate. From killing trees to, well, killing trees. Through a long hot summer Alabama has found its program under seige due to the relationship between players and T-Town Menswear owner and disassociated booster Tom Albetar. That incredibly suspicious relationship has been well-chronicled on this site and others. Earlier this week SportsByBrooks posted pictures from Tom Albetar’s album of Trent Richardson filling up a rather nice ride. Those pictures found their way to an Auburn message board where, you guessed it, speculation about where Richardson might have gotten the money for that ride was a primary topic of conversation.

But then things got interesting. An Auburn fan suggested that one way to find out who owned the car would be to intentionally drive into Richardson’s vehicle. (If Alabama and Auburn fans ever put the mental energy they put into the rivalry in to worthwhile projects, it’s possible the national debt would be erased in a matter of weeks.) If that direction surprises you then you haven’t ever spent any time on message boards. Remember back when talk radio was considered a cesspool? The dark corners of Internet message board life make talk radio seem like a mid-day stroll in a well-kept garden. Where did the idea to poison Toomer’s Corner originate? On message boards.

My point in all this? Alabama-Auburn fandom is past the point of a simple truth/fiction divide. You don’t know what’s true and I don’t know what’s true. Somewhere between everything that is alleged and nothing that is alleged is the truth. And I’ll be damned if I can draw that line when it comes to the state of Alabama anymore. No one can. So we give you stories and you decide if they have any merit.

One of the things you learn really quick on the Internet is that your joke might well be someone else’s literal truth. The Internet does a lot really, really well, but one thing it doesn’t do is convey tone. And many people, God love them, believe every single word they read on the Internet no matter how outlandish. So what starts as a joke can ultimately turn into trees being poisoned.

Did someone intentionally run into Mark Ingram’s car? Perhaps, perhaps not. And if they didn’t, how scary is it that someone is bragging on a message board that they know who did in order to gain message board credibility?

It’s beginning to look like neither Auburn nor Alabama fans will rest until both schools end up on probation.

We know they’ll kill trees, but will they also use cars as battering rams of truth to attempt to uncover improper benefits?